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Blogs > SpaceRangerNJ > Nonsensical ravings

Happy Birthday Bikini  

SpaceRangerNJ 62M
1240 posts
7/6/2007 8:31 am

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7/6/2007 11:42 pm
Happy Birthday Bikini
<-- Brazilian Wrap Monokini. Original Monokini's were just bottoms.

Yummy!


On July 5, 1946, the bikini was unveiled during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris. The bikini made its first proper introduction to the world of fashion design on July 5, 1946, as it is was worn and displayed at a Paris fashion show by French model Micheline Bernardini.

The bikini began to be marketed and sold in the United States just one year after its introduction in France. Reaction to the swimsuit was great, but sales were initially quite slow. Men and women alike assumed that the suit was simply too bare and scandalous for conservative American women to don in public. American women did indeed approach the swimsuit quite cautiously until the revolutionary decade of the 1960s, in which bikini sales soared tremendously.

The bikini has inspired even more shocking innovations in swimsuit design, including the short-lived monokini and the immensely popular thong bikini. It would be interesting to learn if Louis Reard has the foresight to know of the far-reaching implications of the scanty two pieces of cloth that comprised the original bikini.

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